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To: Hieronymus
Oddly, from my faith perspective, that you do not hold that in defending Francis you do not believe you are defending the Pope, is something I am inclined to take into account. If you were fuming about how he is the anti-Christ I would be more inclined to continue to try to take him seriously.

Naa….there's enough Roman Catholic who are throwing ya'lls pope under the bus.....some even suggesting the position you noted in your last sentence.

19 posted on 01/20/2020 6:13:09 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone; metmom; Alex Murphy; daniel1212; Elsie; Gamecock

The Catholics that are suggesting that Francis is the anti-Christ nearly always preface this position with the statement that he is an anti-Pope.

That you recognize the quasi-Sedevacantists as Roman Catholics seems to me a point in favour of the validity of their position as sedevacantists, but against the position that he is the anti-Christ. I will not argue for the sedevacantist position, but if I were to argue for it, your testimony is something I would consider presenting.

I think that Pope Francis, like Obama, simply is not smart enough to be the anti-Christ. I also don’t think that Francis is charismatic enough.

I do not, as a Catholic, see anything inherently weird about the position that the anti-Christ may be A pope. I would be slow to conclude that any particular Pope is the anti-Christ (I think Luther was too quick to rush to judgment on this one) and would deny that the office of the Pope is the office of anti-Christ.

I, at least, am willing to take a public stand and defend Francis against being the anti-Christ. This is not as advanced in charity as what you have courageously done on his behalf on this thread, but it is something. You are being attacked for your defence of Francis. I doubt that those Catholics holding that he may be the anti-Christ are likely to attack me.

I applaud your charity and your act of justice. You are doing good, by the grace of God. May God reward you and may He be glorified.


22 posted on 01/20/2020 6:44:39 AM PST by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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